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Egypt court sentences 528 Morsi supporters to death
BBC ^ | 3-24-2014 | BBC

Posted on 03/24/2014 11:04:01 AM PDT by tcrlaf

A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property.

The group is among some 1,200 Muslim Brotherhood supporters on trial, including senior members.

Authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since Mr Morsi was removed by the military in July. Hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested.

They are expected to appeal.

The verdict now goes to Egypt's supreme religious authority, the Grand Mufti (a senior Islamic scholar), for approval or rejection, says the BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo.

Campaigners say that while death sentences are often handed down in Egypt, few have been carried out in recent years.

The final trial session will not be held until 28 April. so there is some time left before the sentence is confirmed and there will be time to appeal in that period, our correspondent adds

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arabspring; egypt; morsi; muzziebrohood; waronterror
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To: tcrlaf

Sounds good to me. Hang on.


21 posted on 03/24/2014 11:45:32 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: freedumb2003

OMG! Rape jokes, Klan jokes, followed by Comedian Murderers! I feel guilty laughing, but laugh I did. It’s the director’s fault. Nowadays? Fuggitaboutit!


22 posted on 03/24/2014 11:52:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: dainbramaged

528? In one day? Let’s hope they can keep this pace up for a while! #suckitislam


23 posted on 03/24/2014 11:52:28 AM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: freedumb2003
http://youtu.be/ML6oLuLecQ4
24 posted on 03/24/2014 11:54:04 AM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: lee martell

I don’t guess Obama is still interested in giving them the Blind Sheikh.


25 posted on 03/24/2014 12:01:21 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: pierrem15

Let me be the first of probably many to AMEN that!

Can we throw in a few RINO’s too?


26 posted on 03/24/2014 12:02:07 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Darteaus94025

are they using those pig fat greased bullets?


27 posted on 03/24/2014 12:03:47 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Shhhh! You want another Mutiny?


28 posted on 03/24/2014 12:05:49 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: RetiredArmy

+1! This is all they understand & up until now, the Muslims have gotten away with murder (& rape. & terrorism- all that they could dish out. Israel was the only exception. And they’ve been vilified for it)
Egypt makes me hopeful that there actually *can* be peace in the ME one day.


29 posted on 03/24/2014 12:08:14 PM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: edcoil

You gotta pay closer attention. No one’s getting hung for a political belief. These are the dirt bags involved in ordering/ shooting-to-kill un-armed street protesters. That’s worth the death penalty anytime/anywhere and it speaks to the lack of arms of the population that they’d lived to go to trial. The folks , Being armed to the teeth in this country does indeed keep the gummint brown shirts minding their manners. There would most likely never be a trial here if some dumbass gave the order to shoot peaceful, un-armed protesters.


30 posted on 03/24/2014 12:28:26 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Darteaus94025
A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property.

The group is among some 1,200 Muslim Brotherhood supporters on trial, including senior members.

I'm sure 0dumb0 is pissed over the death sentences issued to his mooozlim brotherhood buddies! Probably unsettling to him as he was getting ready to slice another golf ball!

31 posted on 03/24/2014 12:33:29 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: tcrlaf
Has Obama surrendered to the Egyptian authorities yet?
32 posted on 03/24/2014 12:39:19 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: tcrlaf

Wow — they don’t mess around


33 posted on 03/24/2014 12:52:54 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: tcrlaf

When the Egyptian Military gives a gang of thugs enough rope to hang themselves, they follow through and make sure than hangings take place.


34 posted on 03/24/2014 12:54:54 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: tcrlaf

Let Muslims handle their Muslims. Better them than us.

The critical issue is the imams and their mosques. If they’re allowed to continue to preach the most radical interpretation of Islam, then this is just a carousel on which we’re changing out a few ponies. They’ll have new ones in no time.


35 posted on 03/24/2014 1:01:22 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: lee martell

If they were serious about ending the threat of radical Islam they’d embrace free markets, end their cronyism and socialism.

Egypt is like having an entire country run by Crook County Democrats.


36 posted on 03/24/2014 1:04:32 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: tcrlaf

Subtle...


37 posted on 03/24/2014 1:18:08 PM PDT by Daus
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To: tcrlaf

38 posted on 03/24/2014 1:20:19 PM PDT by Daus
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To: tcrlaf
I just think you are according way too much forethought to both Obama and Soros.

Obama (like the rest of the left) has a default anti-Israel, anti-American bias, especially when it comes to dark skinned savages who hate the West.

Obama wasn't necessarily "pro Muslim Brotherhood", just biased (and stupid) enough to think political engagement could change them, particularly if we withdrew support from a pro-American dictatorship.

Soros is just a funder of obnoxious NGO's having little or no power outside the US or Western Europe: it's only in the decadent West that people are actually naive enough to think Twitter can overthrow a government. As soon as the Brotherhood took power, the left of center groups funded by Soros were shoved aside, as such useful idiots usually are. Having had a taste of incipient sharia lunacy, a lot of their members are now siding with the new military government.

39 posted on 03/24/2014 2:16:17 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
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To: dainbramaged

528...well that’s a good start!


40 posted on 03/24/2014 2:59:35 PM PDT by mandaladon (If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill)
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